Transitions

Our Executive Director Susan Davies (fourth from right) was named a “Woman of Influence” in 2018.

2018 was a year of transition for TOSC. Our Program for trails, parks and open space and bring a fresh Director Vince Cloward left us for a Nature Conservancy perspective to addressing the challenges of underfunded position close to family in California. His departure gave parks and the need for addressing gaps in our trail system. us the opportunity to reevaluate staff needs in light of our Our “Bike Guy,” Allen Beauchamp, completed a successful new strategic plan completed in 2018. As a result, we project in southeast Colorado Springs connecting promoted Eileen Healy to Deputy Director, to oversee residents to neighborhood trails and parks. GIS Expert and operations, grants and fundraising. We hired Aaron Rogers Ring the Peak Project Coordinator Mike Rigney continues as Program/Events Coordinator and Sharie Dodge as our to produce fabulous maps that help tell our story to the Office Coordinator. Aaron andShari e share TOSC’s passion communi ty. Looking to the Future

Our Staff and Board are laying the groundwork for an traction among partners and elected officials. The tax intensive community outreach effort in 2019 and 2020. sunsets in 2025. Reauthorizing and expanding TOPS could People live here for our incredible parks, trails and open ensure the sustainability of parks funding for a spaces, but few understand what it costs to take care of generation. 2021–Colorado Springs' sesquicentennial-- them and where we’re falling short. It’s time to take the might provide the perfect time to pass an expanded TOPS. story of inadequate funding to the people, help them If Denver can pass a .25 tax for parks, trails and open understand what’s at stake and agree upon a solution. spaces as they did in November – why not Colorado Extending and increasing the TOPS Program is gaining Springs? Ring the Peak Closing the Gap

After more than a year of meetings, field work and achieved through compromise. On the one hand, a higher, research, a plan for completing the Ring the Peak Trail is more wilderness experience trail was ruled out due to nearing completion. The Trails and Open Space Coalition potential impacts to a unique population of bighorn sheep received a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) and concerns over the security of water supplies. On the in late 2016 and hired N.E.S., Inc. to assist in developing other hand, a scenic, challenging route on the eastern a plan to complete the Ring. N.E.S. and their team got edge of the “gap” was identified that will be a destination to work organizing community meetings, consulting in itself. TOSC will continue to shepherd the process. Next with land managers, and meeting with private land steps include fostering an advisory board to focus on owners to discuss options for trail alignments and fundraising plans and interagency management management strategies. After many discussions with agreements, which will need to be in place for plan stakeholders and agencies, the team developed a implementation. We can’t thank Chris Lieber of N.E.S and route and achieved consensus. his team enough for their wise leadership in this long Like most major planning endeavors, consensus was process. Making Connections

The 2017 Colorado Springs Health Foundation Biking take part in family-friendly rides and events, including Connections grant was a successful evolution and built a taking City Councilwoman Yolanda Avila out for a bike foundation for further cooperation. We realized going into tour, highlighting the connectivity that the Sand Creek the grant effort that there was not a high level of Trail allows to multiple parks from the very accessible community support for bike activities in the southeast of Southeast YMCA. Colorado Springs. Working alongside our partners, we Being able to activate this very impor tant facility that runs engaged the RISE Coalition and other civic leaders through the heart of SECOS was eye opening for many of throughout the community and built a level of trust that the community members who never realized that it is culminated in the Trails and Open Space Coalition and connected from Hancock Expressway to Airport Road. One Bike Colorado Springs being valued as a true partner in of the follow-on success points is that the Parks their community building work. Department now has a work order in for signage to be During our grant work, we crafted a number of installed in 2019 along its nearly 3-mile length. opportunities that saw over 100 community members Committees & Programs

The Trails and Open Space Coalition works in part through fund of TOSC. Bike Colorado Springs, a program of TOSC, committees and program groups to achieve its mission. began as a coalition of bike-friendly groups under the Our newest committee is the fiscally-sponsored fund leadership of the Trails and Open Space Coalition, and Friends of Boulder Park. The Friends of Ute Valley Park is a now consists of several active committees dedicated to more established group that is also a fiscally-sponsored making Colorado Springs more bike friendly. Friends of Boulder Park

Boulder Park is a neighborhood park on the city’s near concerns and helped them create “Friends of Boulder east side. Neighbors became frustrated with the condition Park.” TOSC is now their fiscal sponsor and will continue of their park and came to the Trails and Open Space to support them as they seek to reimagine their park, Coalition for help. Their main concerns: illegal smoking on raise funds to address some of the needs and work with the east side of the park and padlocked tennis and parks staff to get Boulder Park added to the priority basketball courts due to unsafe surface conditions. projects list. We met with them, devised a strategy to address their Bike Colorado Springs

2018 was a foundation-building year for Bike Colorado Springs as well as for the overall bicycle friendliness of our city. Throughout this past year BCS has been building relationships and support with City Staff and celebrating our successes throughout our community through social media and community rides. BCS helped our city’s new Bike Master Plan become reality which will shape bicycling in our city for the foreseeable future. In 2019, BCS will continue to further one of the Bike Master plan’s primary goals of “Creating Greater Support for Biking.” To reach this goal BCS will build a broader base of supporters with a focused branding initiative, continue to strengthen relationships with the City, and implement a membership program through a concerted outreach effort. Friends of Ute Valley Park

2018 was a very successful year for Ute Valley Park, a committee of the Trails and Open Space Coalition. Here are some of the highlights: 384.5 Volunteer hours helped improve the park. Removed 100 railroad ties from the Popes Valley entrance. Armored poor drainage sights in the newer TOPS property. $1 Million FEMA Fire Mitigation Grant awarded, implemented and nearly complete. A new Kiosk was added to the Ute Valley Trail parking lot, with the Mayor kicking off the event. Golden Hills entrance completion. Numerous rogue trails have been successfully closed. 2019 promises to be yet another stellarseason with trail reroutes, rogue trail closures, fire mitigation and the ultimate goal; building new trails! Giving Back

Progress in conservation is only possible with a true Estate, Cerberus Brewing Company, Bristol Brewing, Pikes coalition of individuals, organizations and businesses who Peak Roadrunners, Phelan Gardens and Kreuser Galleries. support it with time and dollars. We are deeply grateful to Our bike shop sponsors for the Starlight Spectacular made the companies, large and small, that help us in many it possible for us to put on a huge biking event for 1,000+ ways. Whether it be direct contributions, matching people—Ted’s Bicycles, Bicycle Village, CS Bike Shop, donations, sponsorships or in-kind donations, gifts from Criterium Bicycles, and Old Town Bike Shop. Other major our business partners are a large part of our success. We Starlight sponsors included Heuberger Subaru, Penrose St. celebrate the businesses that contributed in 2018. Major Francis, SRAM, the CS Cycling Club, Ent Credit Union, and business partners included Live Dream Colorado Real the Downtown Development Group.

In 2017, we received a bequest from the estate of Judy put down rock. Many thanks to the volunteers and the Connally in honor of her son, Tucker, who passed away in City of Colorado Springs Parks Department, and to 1998. In 2018, we partnered with the Colorado AAA Tucker’s dad Jim, who joined us to work on the project Insurance company to do a work project around Tucker’s and thank the volunteers. memorial at the Edmondson Trailhead off Woodmen Thank you to the friends and families of Dr. Sean O'Donnell, Patricia Niehans Road. The volunteers pulled weeds, painted fences, and Auxier, Mary Davies, Nancy Lewis, Joe Craig, and Bob J. Miller for donating to dug out around the “Tucker’s Tie-In” memorial stone to the Trails and Open Space Coalition in memory of their loved ones. Financials

The Trails and Open Space Coalition is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Each year, more than 80% of our expenses are used for funded by donations from more than a thousand programming. These figures are from pre-audit reports; individuals, including 100% support from our Board of for our audited numbers, see our website, where we post Directors. Businesses, organizations and foundations our IRS forms 990 each year, along with our annual contribute, and we make up the difference through reports. fundraising events. www.trailsandopenspaces.org/annualreport Donors

Business & The Give! Campaign Individuual Donors Carolyn & George Cresswell Foundation Donors The Waldo Waldo Fund of The PPCF Mike & Linda Crissey Timberline Landscaping David Adair Janet Custine Trails End Taproom Angie Adams Larry Cutter Amazon Smile University of Colorado, Russ & Sarah Asleson Kimberly Cyr Anthem Enterprises LLC Colorado Springs Catherine Bailie Emily Danti Apex Sports, Inc. Verizon Anat Moskowitz & Jeff Bain Kevin & Terri Daugherty Benevity Community Impact Fund Visit Colorado Springs Renee Barall Bill Beagle and Susan Davies Castaways Foundation Walker Schooler District Managers Phil & Alice Barnett Jo Ann & Patrick Davis Cerberus Brewing Co Zaney Fingers LLC Brian Becker Gary & Susan Dean Colorado Springs Cycling Club Donna M. Becker Jan & John Demmon Community First Foundation Lynn & Liz Bevington Patrick DeMuth Community Shares of Colorado Esther Beynon Chuck & Carol Donachy Criterium Bicycles Debbie & Mark Bibb Daniel Donivan Downtown Development Group LLC Michael & Jean Blaisdell Scott and Jennifer Dorff Elite Properties of America, Inc In-Kind Donors Wayne Bland Lisa Dorr Fossil Brewing Company Inc Dan Boedigheimer David Dosch Fountain Colony Adam's Mountain Cafe Don & Marilyn Bosenbecker Dave Dull Heuberger Motors, Inc AMR Sheila Bouton Steve & Monica Eckmann Keysight Technologies Bristol Brewing Paul Bowman Diane Luck & David Elwonger Knies, Helland & McPherson Law PLLC Cliff House Julie Brady Liz & Rand Enas Kreuser Gallery Colorado Coffee Merchants Jeanie & Gene Bray Carolyn & Jim Engquist Lart Citizen Advisory Council Colorado Springs Independent Steven Bremner Mark Ewell LdC Property Consulting Coquette's Bistro & Bakery Gary & Janice Brewington Jake Eyermann Mountain Equipment Recyclers David Meyers Aaron & Heather Briggs Rev. George Fagan, Jr. Mountain Top Cycling Club Deuter USA Inc Dale and Howard Brooks Marti Fallon Network for Good Echo Canyon River Expeditions Dick & Marilyn Brusenhan Kenji & Janice Farinelli Northrop Grumman Garden of the Gods Visitor & Mary & James Burger Lenore Fleck O'Donnell Family Practice Nature Center Dick and Pat Bursell Bruce & Marsha Fogarty Old Town Bike Shop Gisele Miyamoto Sharo n Butts Arthur and Denise Foley Panera Bread Gold Star Pies Ralph Cadwallader Nancy Fortuin PayPal Giving Fund Hiking Bob Adventures Eddie Calderon Dan & Marilyn Foster Penrose-St. Francis Health Services Krueger Brothers Steve and Jacqueline Callicott Julie Fox Phelan Gardens Liz Enas Patty & Bruce Cameron Leann Fraka Pikes Peak Brewing Marco's Pizza RJ & Diane Campbell Joan Frederick Pikes Peak Marathon, Inc. Margarita at Pine Creek Sharon Boyd & Dale Campbell Carol Anne Freeman Pikes Peak Over the Hill Gang Michael Rigney Jennifer Cancellier James & Pamela Freeman Pikes Peak Range Riders, Inc. Midwest Barricade Co. Glenn Carlson Ron & Julie Furstenau Primal Wear Picnic Basket Jim & Sherri Cassidy Patricia Gantt Reiman Progressive Insurance Foundation Rocky Mountain Chocolate Molly Cassidy Karen & Bdale Garbee Rocky Mountain Highway Factory Jennifer Cawley Annie Garretsona Rustic Hills Improvement Association RXP @ 1039 David & Beth Chorpenning Kelley Gaskill Salesforce.o rg Sovereignty Wines Tom & Ann Christensen Gene & Suzan Gebow Saponas Foundation Sunstate Equipment Nard Claar Connie Gibbons Shift Thrift Tayco Screen Printing Inc David Clark David & Lucy Ginley SRAM Willamette Market & Deli Elizabeth Clement Leslie Bryan & Glenn Goldberg Tap Traders Wooglin's Deli Susan & Bill Cogswell Elfego Gomez Ted's Bicycles Alex Cole Phil & Ellen Goulding The Bloom Foundation Lauren Collier Nina Grant The English Family Foundation Chris Conboy Morris Gray The Evelyn S. & Patricia & Barry Cooper Richard Greenwood Rennau H. Ross Menorial Fund Stuart Coppedge Cathy & David Grossman Donors

Sona Grovenstein Susan Ashley & Robert Lee Dianne & Mario Oliveira Casey & Sue Scott Donna & Mike Guthrie Jane Leighty Justice Charles & Margaret Oliver Mary Scott Lynne & Norm Hall Jurgen Leiser Michael Onstad Mike & Valorie Scott Corrina & Scott Hamann Robert Lesher John & JoAnn Orsborn Frank Self Ashley Hanel Chris & Vicki Lieber John Orton Dr & Mrs H.T. Servis Paul Hanke Tim Littleton Jan Ostrom Ann Seymour Barbara & Phillip Haram Kevin Lloyd Susan & David Owen Connie Shaner Cheryl Hart Don Logan James Owens John and Carolyn Shaw Paul Harvey David Lord Michael Owings Jim & Ann Shikles Corrine Hauter Connie Lorig Annette Pak Karen & Steve Shuman Conor Heaney Carol & Jerry Lubell Karen Palus Bill & Jan Skadow Jontelle Heffernan Pam & Fred Lydick Margaret Pasolli Bill & Betty Slaughter Cynthia Heinicke Andy Lyon Charlie & Shirley Paterson Dennice Soderberg Scott Hente Suzanne MacAulay Steve and Debi Pelican John and Ruth Spidell Lisa & Rich Hickey Steve & Wendy Mack Frank Peloso Cherie Stadjuhar Jennifer Hicks Nancy & Mike Maday Eric Peterson David Stang Richard & Sandra Hilt Jim & Christa Mahoney Laura Pomerenke Karl Stang Tony Hoewisch Alan Malone Ed & Sue Poremba John & Carol Stansfield Matthew & Kim Holcomb Margie Mara Laura Feldman & Glenn Pressman Tyrone & Deidra Steen Deborah Hood Becky Mares Wes Prichard Patrick Stephens Bob & Elly Hostetler Jan Martin Carolyn Proctor Jim Strub Sara & Robert Howsam Todd Marts Susie Ramsay Michele Strub-Heer Ken Hubbard John & Virginia Maynard Kathleen Raphael Rich & Joni Swinford Jim Hunter Edward Maynard, M.D. Kathy Loo & Jim Raughton Janet Tanner Bridget Hurley Paul McDermott Lawrence Rawe Alan & Linda Tate Richard Idler Janice McKenzie Howard & Mary Jane Ray Christina Tennican Melissa & Robert Irwin Stuart Mcmillin Robert & Deborah Ray Jim & Sonya Thieme Karen Jessen Karen Meadows Stephen Reed Shanti & Coreen Toll Luke & Michelle Johnson Dion Mercier Christopher Rehorn Maddy Tormoen Patrick Johnson Zane Meredith Laura Reich Pattye & David Volz Robert Justis Michael Merrifield Karen Reinking Andrew Wacker Dan Kay David Meyers Susan Retherford Diane Renee Walker Kevin & Mary Kelly Peter & Linda Michelin Gail & Paul Richards Kevin Walker Dale Kemmerer Gary & Karen Michels Nichole Ridenour Nancy & Bill Wallace Meg Kendall Deborah Milburn Jeff Riggs Andrea Warner Tom Kennedy Marge Milne Michael & Theresa Rigney Barbara Wasser Nancy Henjum & Stephen Kern Joyce Stillwaugh & Rick Miner Sander Rigney Tammy Weckwerth Annmarie & Thomas Kiemel Robert & Sara Miner Skyler & Kristen Rorabaugh John Weiss Jim & Eileen Kin Shawn & Minon Mitchell Janet Oliver & Aaron Rosenthal Dennis & Erin Weller Tobias & Summer Kircher Steve & Nod Mitchell Eric Ross Jason West Linda Kittiel Marianne Mittelstadt Russell Ross Bob & Mary Ellen White Lisa & Jim Klages Gisele Miyamoto Susan & Ken Roth Karen & Bill Wiedemann Karl & Kathy Klepfer Renee & David Moorefield Ralph Routon Nancy Wilkes Jim & Mary Klever Mark Morgenstern Paul & Caroline Rowlands Diane Williams Marge Knorr Jefferson Moss John & Susan Rowley Robert & Bari Willson Paul Koch Sean & Hope Mullally Bill & Brigette Ruskin Jamie Wilson Kim Kreb Laura Neumann Kate Sakal Dub & June Wiltrout Birgit Landin Maggie Newman Nancy Saltzman Leslie Wolken Joan & Don Larrabee David Nix Louis Sanchez Lucy Wood Dick & Jane Lass Larry Norfleet Henry Scarangella Joseph & Linda Woodford Mark Laucus Mike & Megan Obernesser Mary Schoenfelder Mark & Theresa Yeadon Nancy Ericson & Richard Leap Theresa Odello Carol & Wil Scott Tim and Barbara Yeomans Susan Davies, Executive Director Eileen Healy, Deputy Director Allen Beauchamp, Bike Initiatives Coordinator Emily Danti, President Aaron Rogers, Program/Event Coordinator Mike Obernesser, Vice President Sharie Dodge, Office Coordinator Jason West, VP of Advocacy Mike Rigney, Ring the Peak Project Manager Carrie Simison, Secretary Patrick Stephens, Treasurer 2018 Advisory Mark Bibb Luke Johnson Board Jenn Cancellier Jim Klever Paul Butcher Kathy Loo Glenn Carlson Birgit Landin Dan Cleveland John Maynard David Dull Skyler Rorabaugh Mary Ellen Davis Bill Slaughter Scott Hente Kevin Walker Scott Flora Dave Zelenok

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